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Kempratnerbucht
Kempraten-Lenggis is a village (''Kirchdorf'') within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona, ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The remains of the Gallo-Roman settlement ''Centum Prata'' are one of the most important archaeological sites in the canton of St. Gallen; ''Centrum Prata'' is located at the so-called Kempratnerbucht, in Rapperswil and Busskirch on Zürichsee lake shore. Geography Kempraten-Lenggis was a village of the former independent municipality of Jona that in 2006 merged with Rapperswil to the town of Rapperswil-Jona. It is located on the right-hand (northeastern) shore of Lake Zurich (German: ''Zürichsee'') northerly of Rapperswil on the so-called ''Kempratnerbucht'', literally "Bay of Kempraten". This natural indentation on the eastern lake shore extends between Feldbach, Hombrechtikon, and Rapperswil on a length of about . Due to its location, the area was already inhabited in pre-Roman times and once was us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centum Prata
Centum Prata is the name of a Roman ''vicus'', whose remains are located on the eastern Zürichsee lakeshore in Kempraten, a locality of the municipality Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Centum Prata is the most important archaeological site from the Gallo-Roman era in the canton of St. Gallen. Name In the Gallo-Roman era the former ''vicus'' was named ''Centoprato'' (literally: 100 meadows), and in 863 it was mentioned as ''Centiprata'' from which ''Kempraten'' is derived. Unclear due to the naming of the settlement is a Celtic origin respectively a former Celtic settlement. Geography The majority of the remains of commercial, residential, religious and public buildings are situated in Kempraten, some structures in Rapperswil (St. Ursula church and cemetery), as well at St. Martin Busskirch and at the parish church in Jona. There are also Roman era pile remains of the historical bridge between Rapperswil and Hurden in the upper lake Zürich, foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centum Prata (Kempraten) - Römerwiese - Terrakotta-Figürchen (Kopien Von Originalobjekten) 2011-02-05 15-43-24
Centum Prata is the name of a Roman ''vicus'', whose remains are located on the eastern Zürichsee lakeshore in Kempraten, a locality of the municipality Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Centum Prata is the most important archaeological site from the Gallo-Roman era in the canton of St. Gallen. Name In the Gallo-Roman era the former ''vicus'' was named ''Centoprato'' (literally: 100 meadows), and in 863 it was mentioned as ''Centiprata'' from which ''Kempraten'' is derived. Unclear due to the naming of the settlement is a Celtic origin respectively a former Celtic settlement. Geography The majority of the remains of commercial, residential, religious and public buildings are situated in Kempraten, some structures in Rapperswil (St. Ursula church and cemetery), as well at St. Martin Busskirch and at the parish church in Jona. There are also Roman era pile remains of the historical bridge between Rapperswil and Hurden in the upper lake Zürich, foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kempratnerbucht
Kempraten-Lenggis is a village (''Kirchdorf'') within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona, ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The remains of the Gallo-Roman settlement ''Centum Prata'' are one of the most important archaeological sites in the canton of St. Gallen; ''Centrum Prata'' is located at the so-called Kempratnerbucht, in Rapperswil and Busskirch on Zürichsee lake shore. Geography Kempraten-Lenggis was a village of the former independent municipality of Jona that in 2006 merged with Rapperswil to the town of Rapperswil-Jona. It is located on the right-hand (northeastern) shore of Lake Zurich (German: ''Zürichsee'') northerly of Rapperswil on the so-called ''Kempratnerbucht'', literally "Bay of Kempraten". This natural indentation on the eastern lake shore extends between Feldbach, Hombrechtikon, and Rapperswil on a length of about . Due to its location, the area was already inhabited in pre-Roman times and once was us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kempraten - Kempratnerbucht - Rapperswil Lindenhof 2012-11-03 15-48-47 (P7700)
Kempraten-Lenggis is a village (''Kirchdorf'') within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona, ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The remains of the Gallo-Roman settlement ''Centum Prata'' are one of the most important archaeological sites in the canton of St. Gallen; ''Centrum Prata'' is located at the so-called Kempratnerbucht, in Rapperswil and Busskirch on Zürichsee lake shore. Geography Kempraten-Lenggis was a village of the former independent municipality of Jona that in 2006 merged with Rapperswil to the town of Rapperswil-Jona. It is located on the right-hand (northeastern) shore of Lake Zurich (German: ''Zürichsee'') northerly of Rapperswil on the so-called ''Kempratnerbucht'', literally "Bay of Kempraten". This natural indentation on the eastern lake shore extends between Feldbach, Hombrechtikon, and Rapperswil on a length of about . Due to its location, the area was already inhabited in pre-Roman times and once was us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindenhof (Rapperswil)
Lindenhof in Rapperswil is a moraine hill and a public square being the historic center of Rapperswil, Switzerland. Geography Lindenhof hill (its eastern part is called ''Herrenberg'') dominates the old city of Rapperswil, a locality of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Being a moraine remain of the last Glacial period in Switzerland, the area was created as a rocky conglomerate about 20,000 years ago. Its northwestern slope towards the bay of Kempraten on Zürichsee lakeshore is named ''Schlosshalde'', and ''Schlosshügel'', the opposite side of the longish hill, is dominated by the vineyard of that name and Rapperswil's 'official' rose garden towards the harbour area respectively ''Seedamm'' and ''Obersee'' lakeshore. In all, the around long and about wide hill, is surrounded on three sides by water, and rises about above lakeshore level; just the small eastern ''Herrenberg'' area is connected with the landside ''Altstadt'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden
Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden is a wooden pedestrian bridge between the city of Rapperswil and the village of Hurden crossing the upper Lake Zürich (''Obersee'') in Switzerland. The prehistoric timber piles discovered to the west of the Seedamm date back to 1523 BC. The island settlement ''Technikum'' is a prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlement which is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site ''Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps''. The first wooden footbridge led across Lake Zürich, followed by several reconstructions at least until the late 2nd century AD when the Roman Empire built a wide wooden bridge. Between 1358 and 1360, Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, built a 'new' wooden bridge across the lake that was used until 1878. On 6 April 2001, the reconstructed wooden footbridge was opened, being the longest wooden bridge in Switzerland. Geography The pedestrian bridge is located next to the so-called Seedamm, as of the today, on upper Lake Zürich ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapperswil
Rapperswil ( Swiss German: or ;Andres Kristol, ''Rapperswil SG (See)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS, LSG)'', Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, , p. 727. short: ''Rappi'') is a former municipality and since January 2007 part of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, located at the east side of the Lake Zurich. Geography Rapperswil is located on Lake Zürich at the point at which the lake is cut in two by the Seedamm. Sights The town's main sights are concentrated in the Altstadt of Rapperswil and can be seen while strolling through the medieval alleys. The main sights of Rapperswil are its rose gardens, Rapperswil Castle, the reconstructed wooden bridge to Hur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities In The Canton Of Zürich
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French and Latin . The English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rüti ZH
Rüti, which comes from the Old High German word , meaning " clearing", is a popular name for towns in the German speaking part of Switzerland. It can refer to the following: *Rüti, Glarus in Glarus *Rüti, Zürich in Zürich *:Rüti Reformed Church, an Evangelical Reformed church in the Swiss municipality of Rüti in the Canton of Zürich *:Rüti Abbey, a former Premonstratensian abbey, founded in 1206 and suppressed in 1525 on occasion of the Reformation in Zürich, situated in the municipality of Rüti in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland *Rüti bei Büren in Berne *Rüti bei Lyssach in Berne *Rüti bei Riggisberg in Berne *the hamlet of Rüti in the municipality of Hägglingen in Aargau *the hamlet of Rüti in the municipality of Waldkirch SG in St. Gallen *the hamlet of Rüti in the municipality of Affeltrangen in Thurgau *the former municipality of ''Rüti im Prättigau'' ( St. Antönien Rüti), now part of St. Antönien, Grisons The names of the following places have the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapperswil-Jona–Technikum
Rapperswil-Jona–Technikum is one of the 111 serial sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Site ''Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps'', of which are 56 located in Switzerland. Located on a small former island on '' upper Lake Zürich'' in Rapperswil, a locality of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Canton of St. Gallen. Due to its location on a former island at the medieval ''Heilig Hüsli'' bridge chapel, the site sometimes is also referred to Rapperswil Heilighüsli or ''Inseldorf'', meaning ''island village''. Geography The site is located on a former island on '' upper Lake Zürich'' between the former ''Technicum'' university and the so-called Heilig Hüsli bridge chapel in Rapperswil. Situated at the ''Seedamm'', an isthmus between the ''Zürichsee'' and the ''Obersee'' lake area, the former island settlement was in close vicinity to the prehistoric lake crossings, and neighboured by three other Prehistoric pile dwelling settlements: Freienbach–Hurden Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapperswil-Jona
Rapperswil-Jona is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Besides Rapperswil and Jona, which were separate municipalities until 2006, the municipality includes Bollingen, Busskirch, Curtiberg, Kempraten-Lenggis, Wagen, and Wurmsbach. The official language of Rapperswil is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect. Today On January 1, 2007, the municipalities of Rapperswil and Jona merged to form a new political entity.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 23 September 2009 After the merger Rapperswil-Jona had a population of 25,777 (17, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seedamm
The Rapperswil Seedamm is the partially artificial causeway and bridge at the most narrow area of Lake Zurich, between Hurden (SZ) and Rapperswil (SG). The Seedamm carries a road and a railway across the lake, with the railway being used by the S5 and S40 lines of the S-Bahn Zürich and by the Südostbahn Voralpen Express. Geography and location The Seedam was built on an ice age moraine located between the three Swiss cantons of Schwyz, St. Gallen and Zürich. This morain forms a peninsula protruding from the south shore of the lake containing the village of Hurden, a small island to the Rapperswil side of the lake, and a section of shallow water dividing Lake Zürich and its upper part, ''Obersee''. The causeway and two bridges that span this area of shallow water, are in length and carry a road and a railway line. To the east of the modern causeway and bridges is the ''Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden'' (wooden pedestrian bridge), built in 2001 as a reconstructio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
